Alfred Hoyt Granger (May 31, 1867 - December 3, 1939) was an American architect and author.

Life

Alfred Hoyt Granger was born in

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, on May 31, 1867, the son of Judge Moses M. Granger and Mary Hoyt Reese. He earned a bachelor of arts degree from

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in 1887, and attended one term of graduate school at the

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. He then studied in Paris from 1889 to 1891 at the

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, Atelier Pascal, and

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. Granger worked briefly in the Boston offices of the architectural firm

Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge was a successful architecture firm based in Boston, Massachusetts, operating between 1886 and 1915, with extensive commissions in monumental civic, religious, and collegiate architecture in the spirit and style of Henry ...

, then moved with Coolidge to the firm's Chicago offices in 1891 to work on the Art institute for the 1893

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. He then worked at

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, and in private practice in Cleveland, Ohio, until 1893. Granger married Belle Hughitt, a daughter of

Marvin Hughitt Marvin Hughitt (August 9, 1837 – January 6, 1928) was an American railroad tycoon from New York. Interested in telegraphy at a young age, Hughitt quickly mastered the trade and moved to Chicago, Illinois to work. He came to the attention of the ...

, President of the

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, on October 4, 1893. He was a member of the partnership Granger and Meade with Frank B. Meade, whom he had met at Jenney and Mundie, in Cleveland from 1894 to 1898. The firm specialized in residential architecture. He returned to Chicago and formed the partnership

Frost and Granger Frost & Granger was an American architectural partnership from 1898 to 1910 of brothers-in-law Charles Sumner Frost (1856–1931) and Alfred Hoyt Granger (1867–1939). Frost and Granger were known for their designs of train stations and terminals, ...

with his brother-in-law

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in Chicago from 1898 to 1910. The firm was known for its work designing stations for their father-in-law's railroad. After Frost and Granger dissolved Granger formed Hewitt and Granger with William D. Hewitt in Philadelphia from 1910 to 1917. Granger served during

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as chairman of an emergency construction committee of the War Industries Board, and following the war, at the rank of captain, as the chief of the

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's Public Works Section. He then worked in private practice in Chicago until 1924. He was a member of the Chicago firms Granger, Lowe and Bollenbacher from 1924 to 1930, and Granger and Bollenbacher from 1930 to 1936. Granger died from a heart attack at his home in

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on December 3, 1939, and was buried at

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in Chicago.

Books

Granger wrote several architecture-related and other books: * ''

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: a Study of His Life and Work'' (1913) * ''England's World Empire: Some Reflections Upon Its Growth and Policy'' (1916) * ''A Modern Cathedral for an Industrial City'' (1923) * ''An Architectural Oasis'' (1927) * ''Chicago Welcomes You'' (1933) guidebook for the Century of Progress exhibition * ''The Spirit of Vienna'' (1935)

Gallery

File:Art Institute of Chicago (3573567884).jpg, Art Institute, World Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge File:Beaver Dam Wisconsin Depot Side.jpg, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railway Company Passenger Depot, Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, 1900, Frost and Granger File:West Madison Depot.jpg, West Madison Depot, Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul Railway, Madison, Wisconsin, 1903, Frost and Granger File:Chicago & North Western Railway Depot (7489401094).jpg, Chicago and North Western Lake Bluff Depot, Chicago, 1904, Frost and Granger File:Chicago and Northwestern Depot Reedsburg Wisc.jpg, Chicago and North Western Depot, Reedsburg, Wisconsin, 1905, Frost and Granger File:Northern Trust Company Building 1907.jpg, Northern Trust Company Building, Chicago, 1905, Frost and Granger File:Chicago and North Western Railroad Depot (7592424874).jpg, Chicago and North Western Norwood Park Depot, Chicago, 1907, Frost and Granger File:Chicago Club 81 East Van Buren Street.jpg,

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, Chicago, 1929, Granger and Bollenbacher File:IMU - P1100144.JPG,

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, Indiana University Campus, Bloomington, Indiana, 1936, Granger and Bollenbacher

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Granger, Alfred Hoyt Architects from Ohio American railway architects Chicago and North Western Railway American architecture writers American biographers 1867 births 1939 deaths People from Zanesville, Ohio Military personnel from Ohio Kenyon College alumni American alumni of the École des Beaux-Arts Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni Writers from Ohio Burials at Rosehill Cemetery